Structure and Language of Explanation

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LI: to identify a explanation text through its features
Today we had our first session of writing for Term 2 and we are learning about Explanation.
Explanation is telling someone how something works or why it happens. For our Must Do we made a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about the Structure and Language features that are in Explanation Text.

Maths Game

                                               

LI: Using the standard written form to solve addition and subtraction problems

LI: Carry out column addition and subtraction with whole numbers of up to four digits

Today I learned a Math Game and it is really fun. You can see how to play the game on the video.
You can play against as much people as possible. You can get up to 100, or go down as possible to 0,
decimal points as well.

LS1 Minute To Win It Olympics

LI: to cooperate as a team
Yesterday we finally had our LS! Minute To Win It Olympics, our challenges were:
Floatacious
Stack Attack
This Blows
Back Flip
Bit Dicey
Ready Spaghetti

We did the challenges in the hall, we had our own places to sit as well. Before we started the Olympics, we had to sort out and write in a spreadsheet who was doing one of the activities. Their were eleven challengers who were in each competition. It was really fun and intense. Every team got their own entrance music as well:

VASRA: Uptown Funk
CALPS: I came to play
JPLAZ: Thunderstruck
TNS: Fresh Prince
SGLKS: Written in the star
HALFD: The Game
LARANS: Next big thing
SSKS: Boom Shake
SAMONGALAND: Evolution
MOMA: Break The Walls
ABAN: Thunder

Zombies Recount

LI: to write a recount using the skills we learnt this term

Today we made a recount about a activity we did. The game we played was Zombies. We wrote a recount about it and had to use all the things we learnt this term. We learned:

5 Ws: Who, What, When, Where, Why

Imaginative Recount

Structure and Language Features

Sentence Structure

Figurative and Literal Language

Homophones

The Personal Recount which I am doing right now is a recount. Something that has happened to you, or witnessed, or experienced.  

Commonwealth Games Poster

LI: To create a DLO showing information about the Commonwealth games. This week for inquiry we had to make a DLO about the Commonwealth games. First we had to find information about the Commonwealth games. We needed to use our smart searching skills to find out information. The things that we had to find was a map of where the Commonwealth games is, how far it is from Panmure Bridge school, how many countries are competing, the motto and logo for this years game, information on 3 New Zealand medalists, who the 3 medalists are, what sports they do, what was their winning time and who Sophie Pascoe is. For the DLO we decided to do a google draw. For the google draw we had to make sure our print design rules were good. The print design rules are text, color, composition and layout. We had to show our DLO to Mr. Wong, so he could check if the print design rules were good. I think that the LS1 minute to win it Olympics is really fun because we get to learn new minute to win it activities every week this term.

Making Connection

LI: to make connections to a text We were making connections. There are three types of connections.
Text to Self, Text to Text , and Text to World.
Text to Self is connecting a part of the story to one of you experiences.
Text to Text is connecting a part of the story,  or a character with someone or a part of the story in another book.
Text to World is putting a part of the story in the experience of the world.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to smartcomment
Today I commented on Juels blog post and it was good. He had everything right, but some mistakes to fix up.

Homophones

                      
LI: to identify the difference in meaning between common homophones
Today we were learning about homophones. Homophones are two or more words that have the same pronunciation but have different meanings. Like:
Bare Bear
Blew and Blue
Raw and Roar
Bale and Bail
and just more.
So then we made a DLO about it, we had to make a sentence that has the homophone in it and put a picture that relates to it. Then we would keep going, and going. We got three chance to find our own homophones and do them.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn Conflict Resolution
Today we went to Kiwi Can and went to our Energizer. Our Energizer was Create Me. We got into groups of 4 and Ms Lily and Mr Matt would say nouns and we would have to make that noun. We played about 5 rounds and got into our lesson time. We had an example. The example was:
There is someone upset by him/herself. What would you do?
Our suggestions were:
Include them
Play with them and more.
But Miss Lily had a great idea, before we did any of that stuff we had to make sure they calmed dow, give them a few time and alone time before they beat you up and then your upset, then someone trys to help you but your not calm so you beat them up, then they get angry. So it's just going to me a merry - go - round that never keeps stopping.
Then we played Stuck in the Mud outside so then it started raining and sadly that was the ed of Kiwi Can.

Minute To Win It Olympic Whakautaki

LI. To create a group whakatauki. This week for inquiry we had to create a group whakatauki. Our whakatauki is 'Work as a team, Improve as a team, co-operate as a team, we strive together'. It represents to strive we have to work together, improve together, and co-operate together. We had to have our motto as well as our team logo.

Smart Values

LI: to compare Smart Values with the PBS Care Values

This week for CyberSmart we did some Smart Values and compared them with our school CARE Values. If you don't know the CARE Values here they are:

Confidence

Attitude

Respect

Excellence and Innovation

The Manaiakalani Smart Values are:

Learning

Hope

Service

Co - operation

Honesty

Respect

Responsibility

Caring

Joy

We got all them all and put them into what Confidence, Attitude, Respect, and Excellence and Innovation. We had to put the Manaiakalani Values into the CARE Values. We put them into the ones we thought would fit in there.

Then for our DLO we picked one of the Manaiakalani and write how they fit in each one of them.